Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his negotiating team could meet with the Russians and Americans soon. The Ukrainian president is ready to sit down with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, according to his foreign minister Andrii Sybiha. But, Sybiha acknowledged, “most sensitive issues are still unresolved.”Earlier during last weekend in the United Arab Emirates, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said the differences had been boiled down to one, “solvable,” issue. Speaking in Davos, U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters he believed a deal on Ukraine was “reasonably close.” Three issues still block an agreement to end the war. As negotiators gear up for another round of U.S.-brokered talks to end the war in Ukraine, Moscow and Kyiv remain deadlocked over the core disagreements that have defined the conflict since it began. Though Russia can no longer realistically hope to seize all of Ukraine anytime soon, the President still aims to acquire, at the very least, all of Donbas on top of the already annexed Crimean peninsula.
